Freed Pussy Riot members call for Sochi Olympics boycott

Maria Alyokhina, left, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot speak onstage at the Amnesty International Concert presented by the CBGB Festival at Barclays Center, Feb. 5, 2014, in New York City.

Madonna, Yoko Ono and the
band Imagine Dragons all joined forces with two women jailed in Russia for
their music and their politics. They used a concert Wednesday night to demand a boycott of the Sochi Winter Games.

The three-hour-long
benefit concert was for Amnesty International, and the highlight came
toward the end of the event, when members of the Russian female punk band Pussy
Riot took to the stage and called for a free Russia.

When Madonna introduced
two members of the Russian band - Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha
Alyokhina - Wednesday night in Brooklyn, the crowd erupted in applause as the
women made clear their feelings for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Sochi
Winter Olympics.

Three of the band members
were arrested in 2012 for a performance on the altar at Moscow's largest
orthodox cathedral, where the women spewed obscenities and criticized Putin's
crackdown on political protesters. They were charged with hooliganism.

Stahl asked, "But are
you advocating the overthrow of this government here?"

Katya Samutsevich, through a translator, replied, "Yes. We want the government to leave power because
we consider it illegitimate. But we're advocating for a peaceful overthrow."

Earlier this week, they
brought their anti-Putin message to Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."

Tolokonnikova
said through a translator, "We have different ideas about a bright future, and we don't want
a shirtless man on a horse leading us."

Elaine Quijano added on "CBS This
Morning" Thursday that six members of the band posted a letter on their
blog calling out the two women who appeared at Wednesday's concert. They say the women
are no longer members of Pussy Riot and have undermined the ideals of the group
who "only stage illegal performances in unexpected places."